By Stuart Burns
We are used to dire stories emanating from the automotive industry in Europe of late.
The swing from diesel engines has hit European producers hard, as the region had been heavily biased toward the economical but historically carbon particulate polluting oil burners.
Some manufacturers, like Jaguar Land Rover ([[TTM]]), were more heavily dependent on the sale of diesel engines than others and had relatively little to offer as an alternative. Big SUVs powered by petrol or electric engines have not been big sellers in Europe, so manufacturers' lineups have been